Author: Jeremy

In Which You Should Check Out Blues Hammer If I were a smarter writer I would have saved this entry for much further down the road. Perhaps on the sunset of this series of articles. Not only does Terry Zwigoff’s … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 33: Ghost World

In Which You’re More of a Vibe The 90’s were a nostalgic time. Not like the nostalgia we have now, which yearns for a past of simplicity and relief from existential dread, but a dream of a time with purpose. … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 32: The Limey

Hey everybody, it’s your pal Jeremy here to say that I was incredibly busy with work and holiday stuff this week and didn’t get around to finishing (or if we’re being honest starting) the piece on The Limey. Feel free … Continue reading Millennial Malaise: Oops I was busy

In Which Pizza can be Ordered Online The most notable thing about the 1995 cyber thriller The Net is that Sandra Bullock orders a pizza. After a tough day of bug hunting a copy of Wolfenstein 3D and chatting up randos online, programmer Angela … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 31: The Net

In Which This is All For You. The 90’s were the perfect decade for the full flowering of modern conspiracy theories. Here we have a culture where the past eight decades of existence were defined by the greatest conflicts of … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 29: The Game

In Which Tourists are Parasites From our perch entering the third decade of the 21st century there is a nostalgic romanticism to the world of travel of the recent past. That in the brief blip of history that was the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 28: The Beach

In Which God is a Women, and she is Alanis Morissette. The tale of Kevin Smith is the story of arrested development, of an artist who’s success was so intrinsically tied to his personal musings and slacker persona that to … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 27: Dogma

In Which Everything Used to be Something Else The world of cyberpunk is absolutely rife with ideas about malleable identity, fluid sexuality, and body modification. So it’s no surprise that David Cronenberg, with his penchant for fleshy ports and sexually … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 26: eXistenZ

In Which it’s Time to Pick Flick An ongoing debate through these articles and the responses to them has been, “how much do movies about awful people endorse their awful actions?” This question becomes even more important as we go … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 24: Election

In Which We’re the Middle Children of History I usually never approach these articles with trepidation or pause. They’re pieces to reflect on a specific era of filmmaking by reconsidering hits, highlighting underseen pictures, and looking at junk for purpose. … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 22: Fight Club

In Which I Finally Make Some Sort of Schedule. Hello! If you were expecting a regular article this week I’m sorry to disappoint you. My life got consumed in sudden business, but I should be back on track shortly. However, … Continue reading Millennial Malaise: An Announcement!

In Which We Accept the Reality of the World We Are Presented Throughout this series we have come across movies about social alienation, the feeling of no control, angst at the post Cold War world order, and fear over how … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 18: The Truman Show

In Which the Cookie Stand is Not Part of the Food Court. For the chronically online you may have noticed an odd story/meme circulating through the social media sphere about the new Avengers movie. The long and short of the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 17: Mallrats

In Which Discrimination is Down to a Science Out of all the sci-fi films covered in this series so far Gattaca stands out. Not for being the best of the bunch (I would still throw that honor to Strange Days … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 16: Gattaca